At a basic level children recognize that letters represent the sounds of spoken words. As children master each letter of the alphabet, they map these letters to the sounds they represent.

Phonemes are the building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word ...

Baaa and from the sound of it (lamb) you would expect the word to be spelt l, a, m. But lamb has a b on the end of it: l, a, m - b. Ha ha! Not that kind of bee – the letter b. If we pronounced ...

Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'. Unstressed vowels are vowel sounds that are hard to hear ...